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S it cannot be deny'd, but that the Kings Witnefles have ven-
tur'd as far, and done as much as men could do, ( under their
Circumftanees ) to make out the Truth of a Damnable, and
Hellish Popi[h Plot upon the of his sacred , our Re*
ligion and Civil Government: So neither muft it be deny'd, on the other
hand, but that the Juftice and Wifdom of this Nation have emprov'd
all Difcoveries, by the ftricfeft Inquifition, and fcrutiny imaginable ;
and done all that was poflible alio toward the fupprefling of the Con-
fpiracy, by the higheft Inftances of Political zeal and Rigour. Info-
much, that after lo many Priefts and Jeluits, and other Leading men,
of that Party removed by the ftroke- of Publique jfujlice ; fb many of
them under Confinement; fb many more reduced to fhift for themfelves
beyond the seas, befidc the fevere Penalties of the Law upon the reft,
with all forts of Encouragement, both for their and prnijh-
ment: After all this care taken (I fay ) to tear up the accurfed Plot by
the Root, We are yet allured, that (all this notwithftanding) the Plot is
ftill carried on with Confidence, and Vigour. And this we have, even
from thofe very Perfons themfelves that formerly wrought in the
fame Mine with the Confpirators; till through the Grace of a better
Light they came to govern themfelves by other Meafures. This is a
truth no more to be doubted, then that of ilie Plot it J elf which has
flood the Try all of fo many Solemn and Publique Tefis : Befide that we
have the fame Authority for the One as for the Other ; only the Cir¬
cumftances not being brought into Proof, the matter of Fad lies a
little more in the Dark.
Whether or no the Plot goes on JIM, after all this Havock made of the
Paptfis, is the Common fubjeCt of every Difcourfe. They
that muft be prefum'd to know beft, are of opinion that it does ; and
thofe that are upon the Negative, reafon the point after this manner.
What ? (* fay they ) It it a Plot that will work without hands ? Where are
the Papifts, the Tnftruments that (hould drive it on ? v4re tbey in the Aire or
under Ground; or are theyInvifible? and
broken, ( befide the Terrourthat overawes them ) there are at leafi three
Thoufand Proteftants, in fight, to one Papift. But do they ask where
they are, becaufe we cannot fee them ? Why do they not rather ask
where they are Not ? becaufe they may be any where, and we not hjtow
them : For, as I have been told by perfons of Great Quality, they'l in¬
due all fhapes, and Exercife all Profefftons. They fpeak of one yfiefuit that
cry'd workjor a Cooper; another that wrought upon the Trade of a shoe¬
maker ; Pritfis in Red coats Innumerable *• And it is obferv'd that upon
the bringing of the Late Plot to Light, all the little Frenchmen with
their Marionets or Puppet-[hows vaniln d in a trice ; which gave a fufpi-
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tion that they were only a kind of Itinerant for the Faction : To
fay nothing of their skill and Induftry, in the managing of all our Di-
vifions, and difcontents, to the advantage of their own Party. Thefe
areftories (I know) that are much more eafily ,then
Proved,.-and therefore without laying any ftrelfe at all upon Common
Fame, or Hear fay, I fhall now apply my fe!f to farther of
the riot, which I have promis'd in my Title 5 and fupport my under¬
taking, upon the Authority of Dr. Oates himfelf 5 with a refpect both
to the Validity of his Tefiimony, and to the weight of his Obfervations;
being a Perfbn that hath dived deeper into the Jb/yftery of this Iniqui¬
ty ( with favour of the reft ) then any other man.
As to the Hellifh Defign upon the Life of our Gracious Sovereign,
by Pifiol, Sword, or Poyfon, we hope that the Neck of that rarticular
Plot is broken, to all Intents and purpofes: But we are beholden alio
to Dr. Oates for the Difcovery of Other and of Farther Plots that are
ftill carry'd on by the lame reftleffe Party; tending to the defaming of
his Majefties Terfon,and Government; thGSubverfion of our Eflablifh'dRe¬
ligion, and the Dijlurbance of the Publick Peace. So that unlefs the remain¬
ing, and the ftill-growing Difficulties, and be encounter'd
with Timely and Effectual Remedies, the work of our Deliverance is but
half done, and we fhall yet run a rifque of being ruin'd at laft even ia
the very Port.
Dr. Oates tells US in his Ffarrdtive, Printed by Authority of Parliament,
that the Pope, Society of Jefiis, and their Confederates in this Plot, have
a Defign to reduce Jangland, Scotland, and Ireland, to the Romifh Reli¬
gion and Obedience, byth & Sword:Pag. 63. which they hope to accom¬
plish, among Other means, by difaffecting the Kings befi Friends at home
and abroad, and Subjects, aga'mjl his Perfon and Government ; charging him
with Tyranny, and Deftgns of Oppreffing, Governing by the Sword, and with¬
out Parliaments, Pa. 67.
By Afperfing, Deriding, Expoftng, and declaiming again ft his Per fon, Coun¬
cils, and Actions in Parliaments, and elfewhere, by Mif reporting, and
raijing Falfe News of his Affairs; by difa his Allyes, Hol¬
land, iSpain, the German Emperor, and Princes by Falfe Intelligence. By
Seditious Preachers, and Catechifts, fet up, fent out, Maintained, and
directed what to Preach in their Own,or other Private,or Publick Conventicles,
and Field-Meetings. By fetting up falfe pretended Titles to the Succeffion of
the Crown; and Animating Different Parties, one againft another, on this or
fuck like Falfe pretences, to Arm and put the People in blood, upon the Kings
Death.
We have found Dr. Gates's Obfervations ( as to thele particulars,fo
pun&ually true, that every fyllable of what he has here deliver'd, is
from point to point, the very mattef now in Agitation. For there's
not a day palfes without a Libell upon his Majefties
tion, Defignes, and folemn Refolutions oi State, and Council; belying the
Condition of his Affairs, and endeavouring to create andfe-
loufies among Forreign Princes, and States, by Falfe Intelligence ; ant-
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mating, and Exciting of Turbulent Factions, and anticipating of Confeiera
c'tes, to involve us all in Blood; upon a Remote and Undutifull SUP¬
POSITION of the KINGS. DEATH. And finally, we have
Sedition Preach'A as well as written, and our Conventicles both inftructed
themfelves, and inftrudting Others, in the Methods and Principles of
Rebellion, this may fuffice for the Dodtors Judgment upon the pre-
fent iState of things, which in truth looks liker a then a Con¬
jecture. , > .
As to his Reflexions upon the Intereft which the Papijls had in our
Paft troubles; thefearehis words in his Preface to the aforelaid Nar¬
rative.
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Who befde thefe were the Firfi Aut hours and Contrivers of the late Unnatu¬
ral War, by their Known Diabolical Art of enfaming Parties, and Pafjions a-
gainfi each other? And ( addrefling to the King ) of your Royal Fathers
Unfpeakable fufferings, and Barbarous Ufage ? It was that brought him to
his End, and flourifh'd swords, and Trumpets over his dead , whom they
durjf uot approach when Living. The Putney Projectours ( fays he ) were
in mofl, if not all the Councils, that contrived his Ruine. What broke the Ux-
bridge Treaty, but the Romilh Intereft, and Policy? Who continued to
baffle all defigns of Peace, and Settlement to this Nation, and Profperity to his
Majejlies Family, but thole Incendiaries, Milton was a known frequenter
of aPopifh Club; who more forward to fet up Cromwell, and to put the
Crown of our Kings upon his Head, then Papifts ? And his new fangled Go¬
vernment was contriv dby a Popifh Prieft; and Lambert a Papift, for a-
bove thefe Thirty years.
I have inferted thefe Paflages as a Curiofity in the Hiftory of thole
times; which may perhaps have efcap'd other men as well as my elf.
For though I never made any Queftion, but that the Church of England,
as it ftands Eftablifhed by Law, in the Purity of Doctrine, and the Ve¬
nerable Sobriety of Uifcipline, was ever an Eye fore to the Church of
Rome; yet I wasof Opinion too, that a Licentious Vein of Afmbition
and Schifmamong our felves, had carry'd a great ftroke alfo in that Fa¬
tal Revolution. But however, this is a point wherein a man may with¬
out lofs of Honour, or Credit, admit the poffibility of his being in a
Miftake. Wherefore we fhall now ( with the Leave ) advance
to plain matter of Fact,whereupon we have his Depofition ; the only
Cafe wherein a man may, without Vanity pronounce himfelf within
a degree of Infallible.
WefindePag. 8. that Richard Nicholas BlundellA*^<*zwy day iu the
Week his fever, alplaces in the City of London, where he taught the Touth
Treafonable, and Malicious, DoClrine, and Perfon of his
Sacred Majefly.
Alfo ( Pag. 25.) that Richard Afhby had a Conference for thefending of
New Meffengers into Scotland, to promote the Commotions there 5 and to
inform the People, of the great Tyranny they did ly under, by reafon of their
being deny'd the Liberty oft heir Confluence; and that not being to be pro¬
cured but by the ftvord,they muff take that Courfe to pur chafe their Liberty
By which means (Jdyd the Fathers thus Affem we fhall weaken both the
Presbyterian, aWEpifcopal /adtion. At which Conference, the D E-
B PONENt
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PONE NT was P RES ENT, and heard the Words.
And again, Two Meffengers werefentinto .Scotland, Cue by theNmt of
Father Moore, and the Other by the Name of Aat b er «5au n der s alias Brow n,
with Infractions to carry themfelves like R M 1ST I
NISTE RS; and to Preach to the Difaffedfed Scots, the Necefflty of ta¬
king up the Sword for the Defence of Liberty of Confidence. Thefe the
PONENTfawDilpatch'd, &c.
Take notice, in the Firfplace, that here's a Defigne carry'd cn for
the Deft ruff ten of the King, and the Embroyling cf the Government. Se¬
condly, the pretence of the Quarrel is to be matter of liberty and Confer¬
ence. Thirdly,it is to be promoted by Emiffaries, in the
and Conventicles of the Non-Conformifis. Fourthly, the means by which
the Papiflspropound to compafs their Ends, are by making Interefis
withthoSeparatifis, under the Difguife of Minifiers, and Teachers, re-
fpedfively of the fever al Parties they have to do witball. And Fifthly,
Let me recommend this Particular to your Special Remark, that Dr.
Oates, throughout the whole Courfe of his charges no part
of the Poptfh Defign upon any Intelligence, or Communication with the
Church of England; but makes it only to be a praftice upon the
ters from the Englifh Communion, to tranfport them into and
Difempers againft both Church and State. , ■ f \
We have here in few words, z S cheme of xbo whole bufinefis ; Here's
the Defigne,the Pretext, theInfruments and the Methods'- and upon the
whole matter, here is the Church of England acquitted, as to any
point of unwarrantable affinity with the Principles or PraO.ifes of the
Church of Rome ;however that Tefly frenchman is pleas'd to (peculate
in his Fanatical Reve'ryes upon our approaches to That Communion:
Wherein it may be a Queftion,whether he is more out in his or
in his Morals. We are, in fhort, very much obliped to the Dodtor,
for clearing our Church to all Gainfayers/rom thofe oblcquies which
by both the Extremes are indifferently caft upon us.
It mull not be any longer a fuppofition, that which Dr.Oates has gi¬
ven us his Oath for; fothat taking it for granted, that there is fucha
Projedf on foot, that the Papifis are in the bottom of it, and that it is
promoted by the Sectaries,' only as Paffive Jgents that are blindly
bringing about the others ends: the Queftion is now how the Govern¬
ment may fairly difcriminate the Protefants from the Papifis ; being
fo blended in their Interefi, as well as in their Councils; and mask'tl
under fuch Refemblances, the One, of the Other, that they are not eafily
to be diftinguifhed. It cannot be expedfed that a pretending Protefiant
lhall own himfelf to be a P apifi; fo that there's no believing any man
in the Cafe. And then the Epithete of a Reputed fo or fo, is fb (lender an
Evidence, that many a Reputed Papiflis found to be a ,
and many a Reputed Protefiant as true a Vapifl. The known and Legal I
Expedient which has been hitherto found Competent enough to an-
fwer the Reafon and Intent of State, is the of the Two Oaths of Al¬
legiance and Supremacy: and yet this very provifion will not reach all
cafes : For there are many Papifis that will Take them without any
difficulty; and there are feverall that call themfelves Protefants, that
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will as obftinately refufe them. Now though the Latter (Primo Eli%. )
was a P rovifion for the abolifhing of Foreign Power, and the Former (Tertio
jac.) an Act for the dilcovering and repreffing of Popifh Recufants; the
Scope and Equity yet of Both thele Provifions. has a regard to the fe-
curing of the Government againft any fort of people, and again ft any
Pretenfions whatloever .* So that whoever Refufes, upon a
Tender, to take thefe Gathes, he's a Vapijl in the eye of the Law, let his
Perfwafion be what it will: For it is the only Priviledge of Omnilci-
ence to reade the Heart: or if (for difcourle lake ) we fhould fuppole
him to be no Papifi, he is yet in the profped of Common Reafon, liable
tothatlmpofition, becauleitisexaded asaProofofhis^K?£W/w, not
of his Faith ; and men of Different judgements in Religion may yet agree
in Common Principles of Difioyalty,
And then again, there's no appealing in this Cafe from the Prudence
and Caution of the Law ( which is allways prefum'd to intend the Com¬
mon Good ) to the Teftimony of a Friend or Neighbour in favour of a
cufation. For the Law is a General Rule, that takes no notice of any Ex¬
ceptions to it. The Law requires me to Take Thefe Oaths in proof of my
Allegiance to the Government; and my anfwer is, that lam a very
nejlman, but 1 cannot take them. What is this to the Law,that takes no
Cognizance of my Henefiy, but of my Obedience ? And this Rule holds
in Common, as well to the ^ apifi as to the Protefiant Recufant; They
both vouch for their own Loyalty, and at the lame time they do both
of them Refufe to comply with the Law. The Common way of Re¬
ply in this Cale, is to caft it in a mans Teeth ; But what? will you make
no difference betwixt a Papift that refufes and a Proteftant ? Yes, I would,
if you would but fhew me how I may certainly know the One from
the Other. Who knows not that Interejl governs the World ? and that
for Realbns beft known to themfelves,he that is aProtefiant in his heart
maybe induced rather to appear a P and the Other, though a
Papijl in his heart, may find it his Intereft yet to feem a Proteftant ? But
we'l yield that Point too; and put the Cale, that the fhould be
relax'd, on the behalf of any man living, Does not This open a Gap
(let him be never fo Honeft ) to the admittance often Thouland men
that may plead Hone fly too, and yet betray their Duties ? And is it not
better then, that fome few particulars fhould fuffer by keeping to
the/aw, then that the whole fhould be endanger'd by Remitting it I
fo that there is neither Reafon nor Safety, nor in fuch a Relax¬
ation, nor any regard of Common jufiice and Duty in demanding it.
But what if it be laid, that it is not the Thing Sworn , but the Oath it
felf, that is Scrupled ? and that there are feveral forts of Perfwafions
that will not bear any fwearing at all ? This I muft confefs, is a Cale
fomewhat nice, and unhappy,to thole people that are fo ftraight-lac'd
in that Particular: But then, on the Other fide, it is to the Government
the mo ft dangerous of all Pretenfions, and lets in all the P riefis zndjefuits
in Nature, under That Colour. So that now take it both ways; If
the Law be partially Executed, the jefuits and P riefis will Ihelter them-
felves under That Indulgence : Or,if the Law fhould be lulpended, out of
a refped to thofe that would be thought to make a Confidence of ant
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Oath, the Pr'tefis would all flow into Thofe Parties that fhould be exempted
from this Tejl,and carry on their Defig without either Triad or danger.
Now to wind up this Difoourfe, in a plain and clear Dilemma. It
muftbe granted, either that the Tapifts have a Defign upon the King,
Religion, and Government, and that they advance it by acting the Parts
of Quakers, And'aptifls, Presbyterians, and Other Sectaries, or not. No man,
I prefume will dare to Qpeftion the Truth of the Doctors Depofitioh ;
for in fo doing he would imply a ftrange abufe impos'd upon the Nati¬
on. But on the other fide, admitting it to be true ; there can be no fe-
curity to this Government,without either all feparate
or bringing all Difi enters to this Legal Tcfi ; for otherwife, the
have all forts of Liberty,and Security in herding tbemfelves among the
Conventicles; where upon the beating of a Bufh, it will be an even wa¬
ger whether you ftart a jPefutt, or a JFanatick. And in e fit ft, in this cafe,
there is not much difference betwixt them, where the plays the
Fanatick, and the Fanatickthejfefuit. \
If the main affertion be true, there's no way of finding out the ,
but by thisTeJl .-and theDijfenters tbemfelves, if they would have Popery
ferretted out in good Earneft, cannot chufe but encou j age the Propofi-
tion. Either they haveVriejls among them or they have : If they ,
why do they not do the belt they can to find them out ? i.f they have not,
why do they lay they have ? And again, either the Ncn-Ccnformijls are
influenc'd by the fefuits or they are not: If they be, why do they not do
all that is poflible toward the V urging of their Congregations? If they be
not fo Influenc'd, why do they pretend that they are, and fofet the Sad¬
dle upon the wrong Horfe ? And yet again ; either it isto clear their
Conventicles of this dangerous Mixture, or it is net: If it be Peffible, w hy
dotheyftill complain of it, and d o nothing int ? If it be there is
no way of Extirpating Popery, but by rooting out fanaticism.
Let the World judge now, with what in juftice, the Order, and the Ri-
tualls of the Church of England are charg'd with a Tincture of Super(li-
tton, and Popery, when upon Manifeft proof, the Calumniators themjelves
of our Ecclefiaftical State zxc, throughout the whole Body ofthem, tainted
with this Leaven. We are now come to the Bottcm of the P P This
Liberty of wandering from the Rule,is the Trojan Horfe, under a Religi¬
ous colour, we have entertained within cur Walls \with Difcord, and De-
ftruftion in theBelly of him.
An ADVERTISEMENT.
W. Hereas the Subjects Right of Petitioning has been of Late infuch
tfd, as if his Ma jefty had no Right e/Refilling, this is to Jdvtrtife, that from the
%doffA. 3. to Hen. 8.( as appearsupon the Parliament Rolls )it was conf ant ly the Firfi
thing done, upon the opening of all Parliaments, after the Caufe cf Summons decJar d, to ap¬
point out of the Lords Spiritual, and T emporal,e« tans Receivers, and Trycrs oil etiti-
om-,andfill as they found any Petition not fit to he admitted,it was Rejeded Ncn eft
Petitio Parliament^ ( as we find it endorfed upon the Rolls there was an end
Note, that all Petitions were Dedicated to his Majefty,and that in many Cafes, when the
Parliament had not time to go thorough with them all,the King referred diverfe cf them to the
Chancery.
Now why the King may not as well Rejeft a retiticn Cut of Psrlian cnt, as In Pa r" if lrent, and icly
he may not as zvell Rcjcft it by Anticipation, andPievcn tjon tnehwievsandErpicfsPn hibiticn and
Exceptions the Matter uf it] asafteiward,w a point worthy cf a 1 cjc/nticn :atid vilunlis Majcilv citr
loft the One Eight, or the Subjcfi. gain'd tic Oder: to tic
of This Vampklet, but more accommodate to the Seaje.tr.
The End.
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